1915-16: The New York Idea, The Liars, Major Barbara, The Earth, Captain Brassbounds Conversion.

1917: Eve's Daughter, L'Elevation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Published Sources:

Forum, November 1917.

New York Dramatic Mirror, 1915-17.

New York Times, 1915-17.

Theatre Magazine, 1915-17.

Archival Resources:

New York, New York. New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Scrapbooks of
Grace George and
William Brady.

Thomas L. Hellie

GERMAN THEATRE STOCK COMPANY. The German Theatre Stock
Company was the result of many years of effort by Philadelphia's German
community to establish a permanent German-language theatre in its city. The
company resided at its own theatre, the German Theatre, located in the midst
of Philadelphia's most densely populated Teutonic neighborhood at the southwest
corner of Girard Avenue and Franklin Street. The German Theatre Stock
Company's expressed purpose was to bring conveniently accessible German-
language entertainment to those German, Austrian, and Hungarian immigrants
who still spoke German as a primary language. They also hoped to instill ethnic
pride and an interest in the German language in older stock German Americans.

The efforts of the German Realty Construction Company to raise the funds
necessary to build a Philadelphia home for the German-language drama began
in the spring of 1904. The site was purchased at a cost of $42,500. Stock
subscriptions were solicited to help raise the additional $150,000 needed to erect
the theatre building. The Philadelphia German Society was instrumental in
organizing and facilitating the project. After two years of planning, the German
Theatre was finally opened in September 1906.

For almost a decade prior to this fruitful venture, German-language theatre
had attempted permanent residence in Philadelphia. In 1899, Adolphe Phillip,
a prominent German theatre entrepreneur from New York, made plans to form
a German dramatic company at the Arch Street Theatre; however, the company
never materialized. In 1901, the managers of the Thalia Theatre in New York
did bring German drama to the Arch Street Theatre in the form of Wurster's
German Stock Company. This company prospered for two seasons and, in 1903,

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